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Trevor Henneman at the plate versus Cornell April 5, 2022
Ken Morey
11
Winner Cornell COR 6-12
10
Canisius CAN 11-14
Winner
Cornell COR
6-12
11
Final
10
Canisius CAN
11-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Cornell COR 3 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 1 11 13 1
Canisius CAN 1 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 9 1

W: Gilbert, William (1-1) L: Abbott, Levi (0-3) S: Mack, Braden (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Cornell Posts Comeback Victory Over Baseball

Cornell scored the final eight runs to defeat Canisius, 11-10, in Tuesday's non-conference baseball contest at the Demske Sports Complex.
 
Sam Kaplan went 3-for-4 with a double, home run and three RBI for the Big Red (6-12). Joe Hollerbach also drove in three runs for Cornell.
 
Junior Mike DeStefano went 2-for-3 at the plate for Canisius (11-14), recording the lone multi-hit performance by a Golden Griffin.
 
William Gilbert was the winning pitcher for Cornell, pitching 0.2 innings of relief. Braden Mack logged his first collegiate save after throwing a scoreless ninth.
 
Sophomore Levi Abbott was the losing pitcher for the Griffs, walking three batters and allowing a hit and a run. He struck out a pair of Big Red batters.
 
Freshman Aaron Duffy earned the start for Canisius, allowing nine hits and four runs during his five-inning outing. He walked one and struck out five in his first appearance since March 19 at North Carolina A&T.
 
GAME RECAP
In the first inning, Cornell opened a 3-0 lead behind a trio of extra-base hits. Wils Guy started the contest with a double down the left field line before Hollerbach drove in Guy with a sacrifice fly to open the scoring. Following an RBI groundout, Max Jensen hit a double to right field that scored Nathan Waugh to give the Big Red an early three-run advantage.
 
Canisius scored the first of 10 unanswered runs in the first inning behind a two-out, ground-rule double by redshirt freshman Josh Niles.
 
The Griffs took the lead in the second behind a five-run burst. Senior Trevor Henneman drove Kyle Kush home on an RBI single. Sophomore Max Grant reached on a fielder's choice, which allowed the game-tying run to score. Graduate student Vinny Chiarenza put Canisius ahead on an RBI groundout before his classmate, Mike Steffan, hit an RBI double. Sophomore Carlin Dick singled home a run, extending the Griffs' lead to 6-3, before being thrown out at second attempting to stretch his hit into a double.
 
A four-run third boosted Canisius' lead to 10-3. An opposite field RBI single by DeStefano set up a two-run single by Chiarenza. Steffan added his second run-scoring hit of the day with an RBI groundout, putting the Griffs ahead by seven.
 
Cornell's first of eight unanswered runs came in the fourth on the power of an RBI double by Kaplan, who then hit an opposite field two-run home run in the sixth to make it 10-6.
 
Matt Barnhorst hit a two-run, ground-rule double that cut Canisius' lead to 10-8 in the top half of the eighth, starting a two-out Cornell rally. Following a pitching change, Hollerbach hit the first pitch he saw for a two-run single that tied the contest.
 
In the ninth, Jason Apostle drew the eventual game-winning run on a bases-loaded walk. 
 
Head Coach Matt Mazurek's Postgame Comments
"Today's game is disappointing. We want to get some guys opportunities to go in there and make up some missed opportunities earlier in the season and then we just failed to do so. It's got to be better."
 
GAME NOTES
• Tuesday was the 18th all-time meeting between Canisius and Cornell. The Griffs are now 6-13 against the Big Red.
• Canisius struck out 11 Cornell batters on Tuesday, extending the team's streak of games with double-digit strikeouts to four games.
• Senior Alec Ritzenthaler appeared in his first game since an outing at Radford on March 8, 2020. He allowed two runs on one hit while walking and striking out one.
• Junior Cole Murray recorded his first collegiate strikeout during his one-inning outing.
• Junior Brennan Chisholm hit a double in his lone plate appearance on Tuesday after entering as a defensive replacement. Chisholm has logged a hit in each of his last five at-bats and his last two hits have been doubles.
 
UP NEXT
Canisius will continue its four-game homestand when it hosts Iona in a three-game series at the Demske Sports Complex this weekend. The series begins Friday with a 3 p.m. first pitch. Each game of the series will be broadcast on ESPN3.
 
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